Word: boated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Quist, the San Francisco investment firm. His pun had a certain appropriateness. By way of a theme party, McBaine's company had invited some 600 members of the financial community to share in the unique feeling of being an illegal insider trader. Or almost. The guests were transported by boat to Alcatraz, the inactive island penitentiary in San Francisco Bay. There, while 25 actors dressed as convicts and jail guards capered around them, the temporary inmates supped on roast quail with lime sauce and admired the concrete and steel-bar decor. Estimated cost of the bash: about...
...Then he would create a central organization that could bring folk musicians and audiences together. Now, Maple Hill Inc. of Hillsboro, N.H., is percolating as a record company called Night Light Recordings, a booking agent for new and used talent, a publisher, a producer of special events (with clambakes, boat rides and fireworks thrown in, if that's what you want) and a mail-order house that sends out records and tapes and T shirts...
...most refreshing aspects of Tolins' Guys and Dolls is that even the smallest parts have their even the smallest parts have their own distinctive personalities. Remo Airaldi's rendition of "Sit Down, you're Rocking the Boat," gets the whole audience clapping, and David Dishy is hilarious as Harry the Horse. As Arvide Abernathy, one of the other "mission dolls," Allison Charney has an extraordinarily beautiful voice and a great sense of comic timing...
...fortune by extracting methane gas from the trash, they agreed to let him dump 100,000 cu. yds. of rubbish into their local landfills. But when the barge with its festering cargo pulled into Morehead City, Harrelson found that the deal was off. "We told him to get the boat the hell out of North Carolina waters," said Stephen Reid of the state's solid and hazardous waste management bureau. "We have enough garbage of our own. We didn't need New York...
Rotisserians are drawn, as the cliche goes, from all walks of life. Iowa Congressman Fred Grandy, who played Gopher Smith on the TV show The Love Boat, is a player; so are former Major League Pitcher Jim Kaat and Today-show Host Bryant Gumbel. The American Dreams, the second oldest league in existence and the first to play the game with American League ballplayers, consists mostly of New York City journalists and writers. Tony Lukas of the Palukas has won Pulitzers both for his reporting for the New York Times and for his recent book on Boston race relations, Common...